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| Southeast Asia |
| 3 Philippine commies titzup |
| 2010-07-31 |
| [Straits Times] GOVERNMENT troops killed three communist rebels in a clash on Friday in the northern Philippines while roadside bombings blamed on another guerrilla faction wounded four soldiers in a southern city, officials said. The country's 41-year communist rebellion is one of Asia's longest-running insurgencies. Maoist rebels, who are on a US terrorist blacklist, have become more active in recent months, attacking distant military and police outposts to seize badly needed weapons. Lieutenant Colonel Rogelio Mesias, an army spokesman, said troops clashed with rebels they were pursuing in northern Pampanga province's Mexico township. After an hourlong battle, soldiers recovered the bodies of three members of the Marxist Leninist Proletariat Party-Revolutionary Army, a group that broke away from the main rebel force New People's Army in the 1990s. No one was wounded on the government side. In southern Davao city, New People Army rebels exploded two improvised bombs planted on a roadside, wounding four soldiers from a platoon dispatched to check on armed men seen by villagers, said Major General Carlos Holganza. |
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